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There is a popular story that James C. Flood began his California career in the direst poverty. Some raconteurs have even asserted that Mrs. Flood ironed her first piece of San Francisco washing on the floor…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →ADELAIDE, April 18.—Heavy rains have fallen in tne metropolitan district during the last few days, but the fall culminated on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in an almost…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →ADELAIDE, This Day.--The body of M'Namara, corporation laborer, washed over Torrens' weir dating the recent floods, was found buried in sand. A verdict of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, This Day.--A deputation waited on the Treasurer in reference to the damage done by the recent floods. The Minister, in reply, said that except on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, This Day,--Replying to a deputation to the Government the Treasurer said that except on the main lines the Government would be unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DURING a storm of wind and snow in March last the first train on the Eden Valley line, Westmoreland, was stopped by the accumulated snow, and the fireman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, This Day.--Heavy rain has fallen in Goulburn Valley, and serious floods are anticipated. The grass is springing wonderfully. If the frost keeps off a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TUMUT, Tuesday.-The Gundagai mailman brought the mail in on horseback., on Monday, night, having had to swim his horse across the Gilmore fiat. The coach could not go out. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, May 12.-A terrible cyclone has swept over a portion of the Eastern States of America. Barnum's show was destroyed by the cyclone, and partly wrecked. In Maryland 25 men were blown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.--A disastrous cyclone has swept over several of the Eastern States of America, and Mr. P. T. Barnum's celebrated mammoth show was partially…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A destructive cyclone which swept over the Eastern States of America yesterday partially wrecked the menagerie of Mr. P. T. Barnum. In Maryland 25 men were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After many difficulties and delays, and with the aid of £600 granted by Government, the water has been pumped out of the Francis-Ormond mine at Castlemaine,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MBLEOURNE, Tuesday.--Interest has been again excited in Castlemaine in connection with the flooding of the Francis Ormond mine. On New Year's Day the mine was flooded, and two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It has not often happened in the annuls of the weather in the British Isles that so few storms have to be chronicled as In the two years above mentioned, namely, last year and the year before, says a late paper. In 1888 there were in all 65…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-Great interest has been excited in Castlemaine in connection with the flooding of the Francis Ormond mine. On New Year's Day the mine was flooded, and two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The bodies of Dennis and O'Connor, the two men drowned in the Francis Ormond mine at the time of the great flood, were discovered in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The bodies of the two men Dennis and O'Connor, drowned in the Francis Ormond mine during the Castlemaine floods some months ago, were recovered to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An emergency meeting of the subscribers to the Storm Relief Fund was called, at the Town Hall Hotel, on Monday night last. The business laid before the meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The above committee wore called into existence again, on Wednesday evening, when they held a meeting in the Town Hall, at which W. M. Burns, Esq., J.P…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Lady Mabel, which arrived here last evening from M'bangaror timber laden, reports a rough passage. On the 13th isnt., she was caugh. perfect blizzard from south-east accompanied by a…
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